Course syllabus

Author

Ineke Luijten

Published

November 29, 2024

About

Organizers: SciLifeLab Training Hub, NBIS Training, SND training
First in-person teaching instance: May 5-9, & May 27, 2025
Location: SciLifeLab Solna, Air&Fire
Suggested number of credits: 3hp
Enrollment opens: November 25, 2024
Enrollment closes: February 28, 2025
Course fee: none

Course leaders:

  • Ineke Luijten (SciLifeLab Training Hub)
  • Elin Kronander (NBIS)
  • David Rayner (SND)

Course contact: ineke.luijten@scilifelab.se

Course content

In accordance with the international EUA Agenda for Open Science 2025, Sweden has now committed itself to implement Open Science into its higher education by 2026, with clear paths mapped by SUHFs ‘Färdplan för öppen vetenskap’ (2021), and KBs ‘Nationella riktlinjer för öppen vetenskap’ (2024).

The training ‘Open Science in the Swedish context’ is designed to equip academics across all disciplines with a range of tools needed to implement Open Science practices into every step of their research project lifecycle. In this interactive, hands-on course, participants will learn about Open Science through interactive lectures, discussions with guest speakers, and practical assignments. Participants will gain first-hand experience with implementing Open Science practices into experimental planning & design, data collection & analysis, sharing & disseminating research output, long-term data accessibility & re-use, and project & researcher evaluation.

Completing this training will position participants as future leaders in the global shift towards more open and collaborative research practices, fostering a research environment where knowledge is freely exchanged and built upon.

Topics covered include:

  • Open Science: what’s in it for you?
  • The state of Open Science in Sweden
  • Eliminating publication bias: how to publish a registered report
  • Data reuse with the help of data repositories
  • Good research practice in Sweden
  • New ways of academic publishing: Open Access and beyond
  • Getting credit for all your research outputs: DOIs and licensing
  • Advances in researcher evaluation: funder and institutional perspectives
  • Science communication and citizen science

Learning Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Learning Objectives

This course is designed for participants to:

  • Get acquainted with Open Science principles and how they will be implemented into Swedish academia within the coming years
  • Be able to execute every step of a research project according to Open Science principles

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain what Open Science is, and discuss the benefits and challenges that come with its implementation, specifically in the Swedish context
  • Describe the most common Open Science practices throughout every step of the research project lifecycle
  • Implement Open Science practices into their own workflow

Target audience and course prerequisites

Target audience: This is a nationally offered course open to PhD students, postdocs, researchers, PIs and other employees at all Swedish universities who would like to implement Open Science practices into every step of their research projects.
Course prerequisites: none
Level: beginner/intermediate

Forms of instruction and examination

Forms of instruction: In-person (sessions 1-8), Online (session 9)
Forms of study: Interactive lectures, practical assignments, group activities, discussion seminars
Language: English
Examination: Active participation and a 3 min final presentation

Additional notes

  • This course is highly interactive and hence it is important that you, as a participant, actively contribute to all sessions and elements of the course.
  • Participants need to bring a laptop.